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blizzardboy
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posted January 09, 2009 08:45 PM |
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Well done Blizzard, at least you leave me more time to study. My family will be pleased with you 
The first one, I didn´t realize the insane ballista until he did the first shot. I thought he had went to Destructive Magic, but the "ice chopper tactic" is simply awesome. I needed a miracle to do anything but I wasn´t really prepared for that. No magic resistance, no damage reduction (thought that you will take light)
Meh, I don't think resistances would have helped that much. There's only so much you can do against an imbue ballista  , maybe if you had some gremlin sabatour immigrants?
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I hope to have the vengeance some day, maybe in another tournament 
We might meet again in the 5th one! (just don't use imbue ballista against me or I'll cry)
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Final_Boss
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The Necropope
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posted January 09, 2009 09:55 PM |
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(3rd duel/ Haven vs. Dungeon ) Final Boss 2 – Elvin 1: REPLAY
I finally had my lucky vengeance . His warlock did a lot of damage with deep freeze but my high morale units aided by an empathic knight managed to kill all dungeon creatures really fast. I forgot the “25 paladins max” rule so I had 27, but Elvin said it was no problem so we continued. High morale griffins saved me... damn, I'm lucky when it doesn't really matters :_(
Good game Elvin!
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veco
Legendary Hero
who am I?
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posted January 09, 2009 10:09 PM |
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blizzardboy
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
Nerf Herder
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posted January 09, 2009 10:26 PM |
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FB, you have more balls than I do. I don't feel comfortable using Haven vs Dungeon because all that defense is useless vs spellpower. You pulled it off though. The Dungeon attacked a few times that it probably would have been better off waiting or defending just to stall for more time (like when the red dragons attacked the conscripts), but it's easy to underestimate the damage Haven can still do on the counterattacks, I know I still do from time to time.
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Asheera
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
Elite Assassin
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posted January 09, 2009 10:32 PM |
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Crazy game 
Maybe some mass spells in the beginning would have helped Dungeon...
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Elvin
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Endless Revival
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posted January 09, 2009 11:10 PM |
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Congratulations, as I said it was like raising an undead final boss to challenge but it proved stronger than me
About the battle one thing to say. Final Boss's special allows him to get good morale each time he battledives! Dungeon is one of the reasons I am considering to ban elemental arties, normally you can't kill a stack per cast just as griffins normally don't get morale in every action all the while being a step ahead of the hero.
So the battle for next round is up to radar and veco, let's see how that goes 
About the elemental arties it goes without saying that I would also eliminate the respective protections along with the boosting ones. Maybe I will only disable slippers because meteor shower and implosion are my main concerns, otherwise it depends if you want destructive power to be up to chance or not.
I may also return earthquake through a quest though I'm not really sure if it's needed. I guess it could help vs academy's hive/crystal or blade barrier spamming but the factions that use summoning don't really need it. Plus knowing that an opponent has easy access to that kinda defeats the whole purpose. And no I'm not enabling it in guild so that it can potentially take the place of phantom forces or barrier
I'm definitely adding town portal, it sucks to waste a game just because you forgot to set favoured enemies or did not visit town again and missed half the spells.
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phoenixreborn
Promising
Legendary Hero
Unicorn
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posted January 09, 2009 11:31 PM |
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Or just make the portal to terrain a two-way portal.
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adon
Known Hero
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posted January 10, 2009 08:44 AM |
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Edited by adon at 08:44, 10 Jan 2009.
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I don't know Elvin....yes the elemental-arties can produce some really strong damage in the right hands, but there's already a lot of spells and arties not in play. Removing the elemental arties and the resistance arties takes more of the chance factor from the game, which is a big part of HoMM.  I think leave 'em in.
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radar
Responsible
Legendary Hero
Castle/Haven player
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posted January 10, 2009 12:20 PM |
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Elvin
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Endless Revival
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posted January 10, 2009 01:24 PM |
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Academy game was kinda hopeless. Destructive damage was simply not sufficient, not when units move under mass haste and divine guidance and kshatras were afraid of retaliation. Dungeon vs stronghold was a lot of fun, summoning/dark steals the show again That and the grims killing cyclopes in one single blow but that could have been avoided by blocking them with shamans. Slowing was too risky and apparently one of the reasons the game was lost.
Good job radar.
Now where's Sq79..? The round ends tomorrow.
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radar
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Legendary Hero
Castle/Haven player
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posted January 10, 2009 01:28 PM |
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Edited by radar at 13:29, 10 Jan 2009.
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To be honest I wanted the Cyclops alive and killing his own two stacks
suspected deaths were 1-3, ended up with lucky 6.
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blizzardboy
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
Nerf Herder
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posted January 10, 2009 01:36 PM |
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Either people get unlucky or they simply don’t invest in spellpower nearly as much as they should. Having a huge wad of spellpower is what wins the game, and you should be able to average at around 20 spellpower with Academy. 15 is kind of low.
Probably more importantly, getting stuck with dwarven subterranean in haven vs academy sucks for academy because they have nowhere to turtle. So that benefits Haven.
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Elvin
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Endless Revival
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posted January 10, 2009 01:42 PM |
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It's kinda funny.. Sq is playing mamga and both blizzard and radar are around. Assuming there was enough time and endurance the tournament could end today
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blizzardboy
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Undefeatable Hero
Nerf Herder
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posted January 10, 2009 01:45 PM |
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Ending the tournament? I still have to beat Magmaeater once he finishes swatting aside Sq . Radar is the least of my concerns right now.
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veco
Legendary Hero
who am I?
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posted January 10, 2009 02:10 PM |
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Either people get unlucky or they simply don�t invest in spellpower nearly as much as they should.
No spellpower arties, enlightment didn't help much either. All I got was some attack which is virtually useless for academy facing 24 def haven. And as you mentioned - terrain was a huge disadvantage for me.
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radar
Responsible
Legendary Hero
Castle/Haven player
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posted January 10, 2009 02:34 PM |
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I have had the Dragon Flame Tongue also.
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Asheera
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
Elite Assassin
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posted January 10, 2009 02:36 PM |
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Stronghold vs Dungeon was pretty close, only 6 Shadow Mistresses standing...
In the other one, I find killing only one Archangel with Deep Freeze pretty weak... no elemental arties either? You should have tried something else than Destructive than... but probably it would have went even worse, I don't know
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Mamgaeater
Legendary Hero
Shroud, Flying, Trample, Haste
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posted January 10, 2009 02:40 PM |
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Ending the tournament? I still have to beat Magmaeater once he finishes swatting aside Sq . Radar is the least of my concerns right now.
RESULTS: game 1 : Sq(dungeon) Vs Mamga(Haven)
Sq won
Game 2 : Sq(stronghold) VS Mamga(Sylvan)
Sq wins again
replay for game 2 (i accidentally overwrote game one with game 2's)
Here
Game 1: a battle of implosions VS mamga using extra crossbowmen.
I forgot tactics and the crossbows died almost immediately.
i did however hit his black dragons with my royal griffin's battle dive.
it was my only intelligent move.
Game 2: I went for master of fire but neve got fireball so i used imbue cold deaths. i think it probably would've gone better if i didn't kill my favorite enemies right off the bat.
(Shaman, Slayer, Centaur)
Sq advances
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sq79
Famous Hero
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posted January 10, 2009 02:44 PM |
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Edited by sq79 at 14:45, 10 Jan 2009.
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Thank for the games magma
Looks like i created an upset against magma
Was pretty luck with both games, first game with dungeon got last stand, 2nd with orcs got englightment
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Asheera
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
Elite Assassin
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posted January 10, 2009 02:50 PM |
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Why did the Pristine Unicorns attack the Cyclopes? The retaliation really hurt and the Shamans didn't have a retaliation left anyway.
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